FORD GREEN HALL , NORTON

Ford Green Hall was commissioned by Hugh Ford, a wealthy yeoman farmer, in 1624.
Ford Green was situated in the ancient parish of Norton-le-Moors and in the early seventeenth century was meadow in the Biddulph valley.
A porch was added around 1630 and brick extensions built in 1728 and 1734. The older building is of wattle & daub manufacture. This was a process using woven twigs and branches together with manure.
The hall was converted into three separate dwellings in the 19th century and occupied by miners. It was purchased by the council in 1946 and opened as museum in 1952.
"A lovely, timber-framed house with a two-bay Georgian addition.
The timberwork is mostly closely set verticals, but higher up also concave-sided lozenges.
The gables are plain white now. - Square brick dovecote"..... Pevsner